PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Jeremy Bentham, Robert Nozick, Moral Rights
17 Mar 2018
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Many nations in this world are military opportunists. They will take any opportunity to go to war. States do not want to give these opportunists this opportunity. When state governments try to govern in a way that is good, they almost inevitably use one type of moral logic. You can make people poor but you cannot make them slaves because they are entitled to their freedom kant. Rights are the reminder to the governments of good countries that when it comes to your citizens, they are only different individual people, and using one of these people for the benefit of others. To use a person in this way does not take in account that this person has their own life. Nobody is entitled to force that sacrifice upon him. Rights are the line which the government cannot cross. Just (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g is the (cid:373)ost effi(cid:272)ie(cid:374)t (cid:449)ay of (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e happy, does(cid:374)"t mean it is the right way.
